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Highland Capital Partners, the venture capital firm that has invested in companies like Ask.com, Digg, SCVNGR, and Leap Motion, has announced it is now accepting applications for its sixth annual Summer@Highland student entrepreneurship program. Those accepted into the program will have a chance to work with the firm out of...

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“The fastest way if you are in the 99 percent and want to join the one percent … is to learn computer programming.” Those were the words earlier this week from Seattle entrepreneur and angel investor Hadi Partovi who launched a new non-profit called Code.org to boost awareness around computer...

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FDR had his fireside chats. Now Google+ is bringing us Vice-President Biden in a “Fireside Hangout” on Google+ focused on reducing gun violence. The video chat, which will use Google+ Hangouts on Air feature to broadcast video chats to the world on Google+ and YouTube, will focus on Biden’s policy...

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Whether they mean to or not, all small businesses from tech startups in the center of Silicon Valley to quaint cupcake shops in South Carolina create digital ripples. Radius has raised $12.4 million to measure these ripples and turn them into actionable sales insights. Radius crawls the internet for information...

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Today is the Women Entrepreneurs Festival at NYU. Many of you know that the Gotham Gal is the co-founder of this event with Nancy Hechinger who is on the faculty at NYU ITP. This is the third year this event has been put on and I attended the first two...

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Sadly, you can't spend actual bitcoins like these (non-digital ones) at a digital casino. CASASCIUS As various tech companies report their fourth-quarter 2012 earnings numbers this week, so are two gray-market, Bitcoin-based casinos—and one is turning profits in the hundreds of thousands of dollars after only six months of being in...

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I love Scott Kveton, the CEO of Urban Airship. He and his team are building an amazing company in Portland. If you do anything mobile-related and use push notifications of any sort, or real-time location targeting, you need to be talking to them. But even more impressive is how Scott leads his company....

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The presence of technology in the lives of most teenagers has done little to entice more of them to become programmers. So Hadi Partovi, an investor and entrepreneur, has formed a nonprofit foundation aimed at making computer science as interesting to young people as smartphones, Instagram and iPads....

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This is a guest post by entrepreneur Justin Elof Johnson. I hop in a car with a driver from Lyft, the on-call ride-sharing startup in San Francisco, and I start talking with the driver. She’s a 26-year-old with a Master’s degree and has worked for startups for a few...